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1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

This has been my go-to orchestral library for the last 3 years.

Me too! I can sketch together an orchestration with this in about 3-4 hours, and it really sounds pretty good for a mockup. Then I can replace with EW/Spitfire/VSL stuff or layer up for more body. The solo strings aren't great, but they are usable. And the cost is really reasonable for what it does.

@Peach; while not of extraordinary quality, the sounds available in TTS1 are far superior to the MS GM wavetable, and map directly to any standard MIDI file, with program changes and all.

Have fun!

50 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

...you can enter sustain in the Staff view.

Or CC64 in the Piano Roll View.

14 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

It has been provided for free with every Cakewalk program for 15 years or so.
Go to Utilities at the top, click on Cakewalk Plug-in Manager.
It should be listed under DX Instruments. It may be possible that you deselected its download when you got CbB? 

Just beat me to it @57Gregy!

Unless something went drastically wrong with your download & install, TTS1 should be available. 

4 hours ago, Tianzii said:

How do you tackle this in your projects? 

Just learn to make a decision and commit to it. If you can't arrange, produce, and mix a decent project now, it probably won't get any better with age.

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Ain't meanin' to be a jerk

FYI: In physics, jerk is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity. Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s³ or standard gravities per second.

What is that magnitude again? 😂

Highly unlikely, but you might try to turn off X-Ray in Preferences to see if that makes any difference. 

Otherwise, I'm with @mettelus.

16 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

I know we mix with our ears, but this is a bit of a letdown on the GUI front, compared to their other offerings.

You probably never had to try to navigate the front panel of a Publison Infernal Machine! LOL!

It was phased out as it is no longer supported by Win11, and latest builds of Win10.

TTS-1 is your best option for GM sounds.

One of my favorite all time (and I mean EVER) guitarists has just put out a solo album here.

I cut one of his first demo projects back in about '95 or so, and then I snuck him on to some Janet records and other session work.

Dude could wail on the electric from Chet Atkins all the way to Hendrix, but really shows his prowess on solo acoustic guitar.

Check it out!

10 hours ago, El Diablo said:

My friend asked her in a live stream, and she said she used CuBase DAW's internal sampler to chop the sound from her voice, then played it across MIDI notes.

 

I hate to say it, but that operation was pretty obvious. CbB doesn't have an internal sampler (yet), which is why I suggested learning Kontakt or a similar sampler. Very powerful tool.

Have fun!

Several plugins have had this reaction for me for several years, NI GuitarRig and E/W Opus are examples. 

You can either activate the "send all keystrokes to plugin" button; turn off X-Ray in the Preferences; or exclude a specific VST from X-Ray, and try it again.

I had to exclude EmVoice from X-Ray permanently and the problem went away.

2 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Wow... floppy disks... haven't see those since Atari 130XE!

The automation for my first SSL4K console was on 8" floppy (dual) drive.

I started using V-Sampler about 30 years ago, but Kontakt blows it out of the water for utility.

Just last week I built an instrument using a Piano A7 chord, spread it across the keyboard in the sampler, then played it as an A7 chord... real cool cacophony, if you're into that kind of sound design thing.

Added another link in the above post.

Try this (using Time Machine) at about 2:40. Try to limit your range to +/- 1 octave from the root of the sample otherwise it will get really granular and ugly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yua85ylVKZA

This one is good too, but really quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjND8mM0Mc

Learning to use Kontakt as a 'one shot' sampler is fairly easy. Using it as a multi-sample device is much more involved, but not what you're after here.
Search YT for other vids relating to Kontatk, Vocal one-shots, Tone Machine, Time Machine, and have fun!

The deets are covered well in the Kontakt User Manual.

Definitely sounds like the syllable "da" or maybe "dah" with some serious editing and then spread across the octaves in any sampler. I do this in Kontakt all the time.

I'm not knocking it. Bootcamp works fairly well most of the time. I spent 22 years from Apple System 1 (1984) through Mac OS 9 running a large Macintosh network in studios. For personal reasons (and I got my MSEE using WinTel machines) I will never touch an Apple product again. 

Silly questions; have you cold booted the machine?

Does it happen on every project? 

Single monitor?

Well, if you're running CbB in a VM/OS on a Mac, I can't help you.

1 minute ago, Keni said:

I'm gonna try the function keys in a moment...

It's possible that you accidentally tapped F14 or F15.

IEEE standards for function keys is

13=PrintScreen/SysReq

14=Scroll Lock

15=Pause/Break

Unless you're on a pre-2006 Macintosh or Unix/VT100 Terminal [DOS], in which case F13-F24 are assignable. (Altho F13 on Mac is still SysReq).

As stated previously: cycle the power on your audio interface (ie: unplug it from the USB) for a moment and see if CbB clears the Task Manager in a few seconds.
If it does then it is probably related to your Audio I/F driver set.

Starting in about 1978, Gene Simmons had them add an additional semi-truck to the road caravan just to haul his ego around.

This is most likely related to a hang in the drivers for your Audio interface. 

You can look for updated drivers, or cycle power (ie: disconnect) it for a few moments to pin this down.

If you save & close the project session first, then close CbB, does it still hang?

8 minutes ago, Rain said:

 I think Peter Gabriel once said something along those lines, too.

And Quincy Jones, and Berry Gordy, and Leonard Chess, and Sam Phillips, and...

...well... just about every producer that was worth his salt, ever.